Library paths and .la files

[Joe Orton]

Hi,

If I want to link against my own libfoo.a in preference to any libfoo
installed on the system, I seem to have problems when using libtool 1.4,
if the libfoo installed on the system came with a .la file.

I have in /usr/lib: libfoo.a, libfoo.la

I have in cwd: libfoo.a, and bar.o which I want to link with libfoo.a

libtool 1.3.5 works as I'd expect:

$ libtool --mode=link gcc -o bar bar.o -L. -lfoo
gcc -o bar bar.o -L. -lfoo

But libtool 1.4.2 doesn't:

$ libtool --mode=link gcc -o bar bar.o -L. -lfoo
gcc -o bar bar.o  -L/path/to/cwd /usr/lib/libfoo.so

(I can work around this by using 'libfoo.a' explicitly)

Regards,

joe